Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 15 km ESE of Bijagua, Costa Rica

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Bijagua in Costa Rica. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -84.927° West, 10.6699° North, depth 151.4 km. Global time and date of event 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 20:38:24 / March 19, 2016 @ 8:38 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 14:38:24 / 2:38 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 151.4 km (94 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us20005bt1. Unique identifier: us20005bt1.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Desamparados, San Juan, Naranjo. Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Liberia (c. 45 400 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Puntarenas (c. 35 700 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from San José (c. 31 400 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Quesada (c. 27 300 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Chacarita (c. 26 400 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Cañas (c. 20 300 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Costa Rica (c. 4 516 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 15 km ESE of Bijagua, Costa Rica.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-84.927° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.6699° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	151.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15km ESE of Bijagua, Costa Rica	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-03-19 20:38:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-08 23:12:50	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	284	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.377	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.75 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	33	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20005bt1	Id of event.
Event Code	20005bt1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005bt1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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